The Earth After Rebirth

He looked around and sure enough, the queen's body was splayed on the ground it hadn't shrivelled up, it was still a bit warm. He passively used vibrations to sense that.

"Wait wait, huh?"

None of it made sense. He'd understand if maybe half the time had passed, but none at all? It was very strange.

Then he remembered the feeling of jumping. It was absolutely horrendous, as if his body was being assembled and disassembled with the highest pain intolerance in the entire universe.

"Haha let's avoid jumping if we can."

He suddenly felt light headed, which made him take a sitting position. He could feel his energy had been sucked dry. He had a look of panic on his face when he realised he couldn't absorb the game's magic.

As if to calm him down, Kaos started entering his pathways. He sighed deeply and laid on the dirty ground. Thanking Wukong for blessing him with the crystal, his character would surely be erased without magic. But Kaos was keeping it alive.

"System, you son of a b*tch where have you been?"

[...]

"Tsk." He didn't have the energy to argue so he just let it be.

This was now a mystery for him, if he wasn't exactly in a game, then what was the Underworld. Were there realms like it, would he have died for real if he died down there? This was a question he wouldn't even experiment on to find out.

Maybe he could catch Isaac and drag him to sun's mountain, drop him in there and wait for the results.

"Maybe." He quite like that idea.

"Oh, is this why it's called Sun's Mountain? Sun Wukong? Wow, that took me way too long to connect the dots."

He waited on the ground, while thinking about random things. Absorbing Kaos across realms was extremely hard and difficult, it was a slow process. He reckoned it'd get better when he gets better at his reality warping skill.

Just then, he was attacked by a gust of familair wind. It didn't threaten to cut him to pieces or anything, but it felt like some kind of greeting.

"Ren! Gin! V! What the hell? How?"

When they noticed he was disappearing, they piggybacked off him, not thinking it'd actually work but fortunately they crossed over along with him. V almost lost an arm because of the heavy load he was carrying, but he managed to squeeze it through.

"Oh, oh, this is amazing. That means I could take things from there. I should've taken Hubris. Who am I kidding, he's too big and powerful, I'd probably manage just his tail the way I am."

He was so excited, he was saying everything at once. He had many goals, and he added this one to the long list of them. Unlocking more stages for reality warping, so that he can act as a doorway for Asgard and the Underworld.

"Man, you guys still can't speak? That's a bummer."

Ding!

[Warning, you have been cursed—]

"Cursed? By what?" He said getting up and looking around, taking a fighting stance.

[Ghosts, you have ghosts lingering around you.]

Kiro rolled his eyes. It was his turn to ignore the system. After months of not having it constantly barking in his mind, he wasn't sure he needed it. He survived the treacherous Underworld without it's guidance after all.

His energy was only half way through after hours absorbing it.

"Okay guys, I'll attempt to tame you don't fight it, this just means we can work together more efficiently."

They all understood what he meant. So when the energy entered they bodies attempting to subdue them, they willingly accepted.

Ding!

[Congratulations, you've turned your curses into your little army. You've tamed 3 ghosts—]

"They're called spectres and their names are Ren, Gin and V." He cut the system short before it asked for him to name them.

"Okay my beautiful spies, your first mock mission is gathering information about this mountain and the monsters that live in it. Come back here within 2 hours." Kiro didn't waste any time, he had to train them so they were perfect.

They also didn't waste time, as they left before Kiro could even breathe after saying his last word. Clearly they wanted to prove their worth, especially the clumsy Ren.

The taming had taken a big chunk of energy from his pool. He saw himself back to square one once again, he sighed and sat down.

He was surprised that the time dilation wasn't messing his head or body up. But he was grateful nonetheless, he spent months training over there, only for the time to have stood still around asgard, it was a win.

Even though no time had passed, to him, mentally he hadn't seen his friends in months. It was the only thing he held onto that made him rule out the fact that the Underworld might have been simply a hallucination.

Even then, he didn't think he had such an imagination to make up everything that happened down there.

Ding!

[Your reward level calculation is done. Congratulations on receiving 20 levels, job well done Guardian.]

He remembered that there such things, levels and character sheets, something he was without for a very long time. He brought it up and was amazed by what he saw.

Name: Kiro

Level 90

Race: High Dreki

Class: Sagehood

Subclass: Beast Tamer

HP: 30 000/30 000

??? : infinite

Attack: 7000

PDEF: 10000

Strength: 300

Vitality: 300

Dexterity: 360

Stamina: 350

Intelligence: 300

Constitution: 500

Wealth: 500 million coins

Equipment: Ancient Sun's Robe, Legendary Staff Ryu.

Mount: Hubris the Hellhound

Skills

Vibrations (AOE Rank S, can evolve)

Consumes 5?? per second, no cooldown.

Blink Step (Rank S, can evolve)

Consumes 10?? per second.

Martial Arts (Ranked S, can't evolve)

Chi (Ranked A, can't evolve)

Bending Kick (Ranked A, can evolve)

Regeneration (Ranked S, cannot evolve)

The skill regenerates 100 HP and ?? per second

Whirlwind (Ranked A, can evolve) find-more-stories-on-MVLeMpYr

Uses 100 ?? per second. No cool down.

Meditation (Ranked D, can evolve)

Lightning Manipulation (A ranked, can't evolve)

Uses 100 ?? per second. 1 minute cool down.

Reality Warping (Ranked ??, can evolve)

132 AP

44 SP

Kiro rubbed his eyes to make sure he saw that right. There was just no way, everything about the game was confusing.

"Hubris? He's still listed as my mount? How? Is the Underworld part of Asgard or not?"